Bedstead-exhibitor.



Y PATENTED JAN. 31, 1905.

0. L. BUSTIN. f BEDSTBAD EXHIBITOR.

' APPLICATION IILED JULY 6,1903.

bodying my invention.

U ITED STAT S Patented January 31, 1905.

, PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES LEON BUSTIN, OF s'r. JOHN, CANADA, ASSIGNORTO JOHN WHITE, OF ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK, OANADA.

BEDSTEAD-EXHIBITOR.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 781,184, dated January 31 1905.

' Application filedrJuly 6, 1903. Serial No. 164,501.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES LEON BUsTIN, salesman, a subject of His Majesty King Edward the Seventh, residing at the city of St.

My invention relates to improvements in stands for storing and exhibiting head and foot pieces of bedsteads (particularly iron bedsteads) not put together with their side pieces, and other flat articles of a like nature, in such a manner as to economize floor-space and to facilitate their display and examination. ism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which Figure 1 is a partial view of a stand em- Fig. 2 is a front view of same. 1 Fig. 3 is an isometrical perspective view thereof. Fig. 4 is a plan of the same.

Similar, letters refer to similar parts.

The base a, steadily fixed in position, has set in it pins 2', which are ofa size to conform to and enter into the hollow space ordinarily found in an iron-bedstead post when the caster has been removed. These pins are so placed that the center of each shall be vertically un-' der the center of space between the tines ofthe fork it. They are an inch or'inore in height above the base a and are intended to support and uphold the portion of a bedstead intended to be exhibited and at the same time to serve as a pivot on which to swing such portion and are set in the base a at convenient distances from each other. The pins or posts 6, set in base a, are bearers for the top rail or ribbon c.- The shank of each of the forks it is screw-threaded through therail c and is held in position at the desired angle for gripping the bedpost by the threaded nut e.

The nut e is prevented from cutting into the, rail 0 by the washer.

The drawings show a part of a head-piece I attain these objects by the mechan- I of an iron bedstead in place in my exhibitor. The pin z'is engaged in the hollow of the bedpost, and the upper part of the postengages with the times of the fork It, thus keeping the head-piece perpendicular and allowing it to be swung, as hereinafter described, for the purposes of better exhibiting it. By adjusting the tines obliquely they may be made to grip, as may be desired, any bedpost of a less diameter than the space between the tines, the

leg or post :20 being thus held in a vertical position. The other post of the head or foot piece being exhibited is free to be swung or moved in the arc of a circle having pivotal pin 2' as a center}. Thus a series of bedstead-pieces or other flat articles standing in the exhibitor may be separated from one another and shown with ease and without danger of defacement.

It may be found convenient to substitute for or use with'the tines of the fork h pegs or pins cl, as indicated in drawings, for the purpose of keeping the bedstead-piece in a vertical position, and instead of the bedpost being engaged with the pin it may engage in the holes is, bored in the base a, for the purpose and so placed that the center of each shall be-vertically under the center of the space between the tines of the fork lb or between the pins 0? d.-

The apparatus may be of Wood or metal or part one and part the other.

If it is desired to exhibit bedstead-pieces of varying heights, additional ribbons provided with forks, 860., may be borne on the posts 6 at the required heights, or if the pins 2' be high enough and strong enough the rails c, with holes, &c., may be dispensed with.

By this mode of construction or any variation thereof this invention will exhibit bedsteads or other flat objects of like nature in a manner much superior to any arrangement now in existence. Very little work is left to the attendant.

While I have shown a preferred form of carrying my invention into effect, still I do not desire to limit myself to such preferred details of construction and claim a right to use any and all modification thereof which will serve to carry into effect the objects to be ohtained by this invention so far as such modistead-posts, substantially as and for the pur- [o fications may fall Within the spirit and scope poses described.

of my said invention. In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name I claim as newto this specification in the presence of two sub- 5 A bedstead-exhibitor consisting of a base scribing Witnesses.

having pins to hold the bedstead-pieces ver- CHARLES LEON BUSTIN. tically in position, and on which to swing Witnesses: them, and a rail suitably supported and pro- STEPHEN B. BUSTIN,

vided with devices for gripping such bed- J. JOSEPH PORTER. 

